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- foresto> A happy home: I love having both plants and homemade projects in my living space.This reminds me of various programs I've made to improve the quality of my digital life. Humble little things that I didn't want to build, addressing minor problems that could be mostly solved by other means, but nevertheless appeared on my mental wish list often enough that I eventually dedicated some time to creating them.These tools do exactly what I need, all day, every day, quietly making things more pleasant than they would be otherwise. With them, I feel at home.
- userbinatorNot sure we need another term for this, as "utilities" has been the accepted term for various one-off programs that do miscellaneous things, and of which power-users will tend to have a rather large collection of.However, the term reminded me of a memorable interaction I had many decades ago with an old woman who wanted to write a program in x86 Asm to manage various aspects of the plants in her garden. (She did succeed at doing so.)
- ku1ikThis is such a lovely article. It’s one of the few things posted to HN these days that actually feels human.
- skyberrysThe article has a bonus cat video so I highly recommend it. I like the houseplant metaphor, but I don't see how the author is tending to the programs like the plants. The plants are getting regular care, do the one of programs?
- VoklenI love this, although I tend to use the “Home-cooked meal” analogy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423
- phitoI love it. I do plant tissue culture as hobby and really see plants as the living systems that they are.
- amelius